Investment
A DMCC Free Zone Licence Rests on a Lease: Charge Bands and Uptown Supply
A DMCC free zone licence rests on a valid lease or freehold, and the Schedule of Charges prints space in bands, from…
Roksolana Pyrtko
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Logistics
Dubai Warehouse Rents at 6.8% and 12.4%: One Label, Two Assets
Two figures for Dubai warehouse rents reached print a day apart in September 2026. One surveys asking rents on supply-constrained space, the…
Retail
A Shop in a Dubai Municipality Market: What the Service Charge Is
A service charge normally recovers what services cost. In the fifteen markets Dubai Municipality operates it is defined instead as a percentage…
Logistics
Dubai South and Its Regulator: What the Zone Governs and Publishes
Dubai South is a zone, a landlord and a licensing counterparty at once. Reading its published pages in order shows which decisions…
Logistics
Reading Port Throughput as Warehouse Demand: Where It Breaks
Container throughput is the number most often reached for when a Dubai warehouse decision needs a demand signal. The group figure and…
Investment
Dubai’s Rent Increase Cap: How the Index Sets the Ceiling
A rent increase in Dubai is not negotiated upward from the current rent. It is capped by a band, and the band…
Retail
Mall Occupancy at 98%: Two Ways to Count the Same Portfolio
A headline occupancy rate is an average, and an average needs a base. Majid Al Futtaim publishes the occupancy of every mall…
Logistics
Jafza’s Warehouse Lease: How the Licence Sets the Tenant Pool
A warehouse unit inside Jebel Ali Free Zone is leased to a licence rather than to a company, and the tier of…
Investment
Dubai’s Rental Contracts in 2024: What the Record Count Merges
A rental contract in Dubai Land Department data is a registered tenancy, and the record 965,067 of them in 2024 sums two…